カテゴリー: Home Office
The fate of the woman who left the UK at 15 in search of Islamic State raises wider questions about citizenshipWhile many aspects of UK political polling have shifted drastically since 2019, the public’s view on Shamima Begum has remained largely fixed…
Gurpreet Singh Johal wants to know if stops are linked to his efforts to find out whether UK intelligence played a role in sibling’s arrestThe brother of Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh jailed in India, has written to the Home Office to ask why he i…
Exclusive: Thames Valley police requested Carmen Lau ‘avoid public gatherings’ after neighbours received bounty lettersA former Hong Kong politician and prominent democracy campaigner has accused British police of asking her to “self-censor” and “retre…
Government could face a huge bill for damages after keeping more than 60 asylum seekers in ‘hellish’ conditionsDozens of asylum seekers stranded on one of the most remote islands in the world in conditions described as “hell on earth” were unlawfully d…
Exclusive: Preet Gill says a number of Sikhs have been stopped at border, raising concerns over Delhi’s influenceBritish Sikhs are being stopped at airports and questioned about their attitudes towards India, a Labour MP has said, raising concerns abou…
Man scheduled to depart for Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving wife in UK, but believes his life will be at riskA husband and wife face enforced separation because the Home Office wants to put him on a deportation flight to Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving his w…
Appeal allowed Sudharsan Ithayachandran to return to UK to be with his family, but he died in Sri Lanka while awaiting visaThe family of a man who died abroad after being wrongly deported by the UK Home Office have blamed the department for causing del…
Families of those who helped British forces could be deported from Pakistan despite promise to resettle them in UKAfghan families who helped UK forces and then fled to neighbouring Pakistan are in danger of being deported back to the Taliban due to Hom…
Ahmad* was approved for relocation to UK before Home Office refusal meant he missed evacuation from Afghanistan in 2021An Afghan former interpreter with the British army has resettled in the UK with his family after a lengthy legal battle with the gove…
Refugees, including a special forces soldier and a political adviser, receive ‘notice to quit’ letters from home secretaryAfghan refugee families uprooted from London to Yorkshire earlier this year have been issued with eviction notices in the name of …
Exclusive: People who risked their lives and were evacuated to Britain were forcibly removed to Nepal days laterMore than 100 Nepali guards who risked their lives to protect British embassy staff in Afghanistan before the Taliban seized back control we…
Despite MoD assurances, applicant and former British Council worker still being asked for Taliban-stamped papersAn Afghan who worked with the British Council and is applying to come to the UK has been told to retrieve documents from the Taliban or risk…
About 9,000 of the people who arrived in Britain since the fall of Kabul are still living in temporary accommodationSince the fall of Kabul in August 2021, 22,833 people have arrived in the UK from Afghanistan, nearly all of whom had at least one famil…
Ministers announce refugees in hotels will be offered move to a home on condition they accept first offerPolitics live – latest updatesPeople who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan are at risk of homelessness in the UK, humanitarian groups have warned, af…
Press members living under the Taliban, and living uncertain lives in Pakistan, must be given clarity say campaign groupsHundreds of Afghan journalists remain stranded in increasingly “dire” circumstances as frustration mounts over the UK government’s …